I searched for some time for a utility that would let me mirror a remote
http site to my hard drive with Windows 95. While there are several utilities
to do this, I couldn't find any that I liked. Specifically, I wanted to
be able to do it from the command line so that I could call it from a script,
and I wanted duplicate files on my local drive for subsequent processing
by another application. When I found wget for the unix environment, I decided
to port it to Windows.

The most recent version I compiled is wgetwin-1_5_3_1-binary.zip.
Version 1.5.3 of wget compiles cleanly for windows. To compile it yourself,
you will also need to get wget-1.5.3.tar.gz.
This 1.5.3.1 includes some additional changes
to allow downloading of URLs that have '?' or '*' in their name.
This compile was created on July 1, 1999.

WGETRC file...
To set up a .wgetrc file under windows, you have two choices

Set an environment variable called "WGETRC" which points to the full
pathname of your wgetrc file

Set an environment variable called "HOME" (if it doesn't already
exist) pointing to a directory. Put your wgetrc file in this
directory, and call it 'wgetrc'

Heiko Herold has been diligently providing updated wget binaries for the
windows platform as changes to the wget source archive are available. You
can almost surely find a newer version of wget than I have available here.
See http://www.geocities.com/heiko_herold/.

Lachlan Cranswick has created a compilation of many wget pages, and some
good tips for getting wget working well at
http://www.dl.ac.uk/CCP/CCP14/mirror/wget.htm
. He actually mirrors all the sites there as well, and he's on the
European side of the atlantic.

Please don't email me for wget support. Although I've compiled it, I'm
only a novice user of it. There is a wget mailing list. It is archived
at http://fly.cc.fer.hr/archive/wget.
To subscribe to it, send email to wget-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk with the
word subscribe as the subject.